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Dynaspheres Tungsten 572 Pool Ball Set

Bob Jewett
maha said:
if both players are playing and neither can tell if the balls are a speck smaller whats the difference.
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Where I play, one problem is that because some balls have been replaced, the balls are different sizes. A tight rack is really hard with different ball sizes.

A big problem is when the cue ball gets worn down relative to the object balls. Draw gets very easy and follow is much harder. On some shots it can be two diamonds different on where the cue ball ends up.
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Stimpmeter built into the ball

Bob Jewett
nataddrho said:
If you can produce a constant or equation than I can add an option to display with that value also
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From the number you have, it should be easy to calculate the deceleration, in m/s^2, of the center of the ball. The slope is just that over gravity, and then take the inverse to get a number of around 100 for table speed. (This ignores angular momentum, but it's simpler.)
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Treadway cues

HawaiianEye
This was the photo Richard Black used for his catalog when I had him make the 4-point in 1978.

$175 is what I paid for it.

I wanted him to make the Hoppe for me, but he said he didn't want to make any more of them until he figured out what was causing them to make some sort of weird sound when you hit the ball with them. I assume it was because of the way he constructed the butt cap with the Hoppe ring and I can't remember if he used a bumper on them at the time or whether it was recessed into the butt.

I guess he figured it out because he started making them again,


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Shims

u12armresl
DrCue'sProtege said:
Tell you what garczar. Once my Diamond Professional is delivered I want you to call Aaron at Diamond and ask him how our transaction went down. Find out first hand if I was a pain in the a$$ or a nut case. Then let the Forum know.

Deal?
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I have talked to enough people to know you are a pain and difficult, when you post some batty stuff here, you turn around and pretend it is tongue and cheek, but it is you doing what you always do. I've done more and forgotten more about pool than you will know, and I post videos of me playing, not too hard to do.
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Is removing your glove a shark move?

SeniorTom
maha said:
no when people talk about things or give examples they are not expecting those that seem to always find an exception and throw it in their face.
that infliction comes from not having a good grasp on reality.
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My point is this, and pretty much this only, certain situations, most people can be sharked by what appears to be subtle activity. When the pressure's on, and you got somebody that disrespects your turn, it just isn't fair or sportsmanlike.
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Treadway cues

HawaiianEye
garczar said:
I only had a 'cosmic connection' to one cue really, a 1983 R. Black 4pt Hoppe. I traded it for a Scruggs that played fine but the ol Black was special. Oh well.
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I had Richard make me an ebony 4-pt in 1978 and it played lights out.

In 1981, I was living in the Philippines and playing pool everyday so I had him make me another cue, a Merry Widow.

There was a young Air Force guy from Texas that was in awe of Richard Black, another Texan, and he kept bugging me to sell the 4-point to him after I told him I had ordered a new cue.

I sold it to him before I got a chance to put in much time with the new cue.

The first cue played WAY better and I regretted selling it.

I then moved to Japan and on one of my travels back to the USA in 1985, I went back to the town where I grew up and visited the pool hall where I had learned to play and worked as a kid and teen. The owner was buddies with Jim McDermott and he got me a rock-bottom steal on a McDermott C-14 when the D-Line catalog came out.

I didn't need another cue, but I got such a good deal I knew I could sell it for more than I paid for it.

When I got it, it played OUTSTANDING, so I kept it and sold the Black.

I used it for decades.

I still have the C-14 and I have turned down MULTIPLE cash-in-hand offers of more than 10 times what I paid for it.



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